Introduction and Executive Summary
Introduction
NHS Golden Jubilee continues to play a unique and valued role within NHS Scotland, collaborating with NHS Boards across Scotland to deliver high quality healthcare to our national population.
NHS Golden Jubilee have continued supporting NHS Scotland, reinforcing our position as the original National Treatment Centre by carrying out 72,500 planned care procedures in orthopaedics, cataracts, general surgery, colorectal, scopes and scans. In addition, we also performed 9,000 cardiology, cardiac and thoracic procedures, including 40 heart transplants – a record number carried out for Scotland.
Our Phase 2 expansion, known as the Golden Jubilee Surgical Centre, is scheduled to be completed in summer 2024. Part of the National Treatment Centres Programme, this new building extension will provide extra orthopaedic, general surgery and endoscopy services to benefit patients across the country.
Although focused on treating as many patients as possible, the organisation has continued to innovate through increasing our use of robotic surgery in orthopaedics, lung and colorectal surgery.
NHS Golden Jubilee performed the first Meniscal Transplant in Scotland, potentially benefitting thousands of younger patients every year and was also the first Scottish Health Board to perform Endoscopic Vein Harvesting (EVH), as part of a coronary artery bypass graft.
In 2022/2023, our Research Institute was involved in approximately 150 research projects (active, follow up and proposed) with a range of academic and industry partners. During the year, we cemented our University Hospital status, working with the University of Strathclyde on a number of innovative patient improvement projects across our multi-disciplinary team.
Through our national Centre for Sustainable Delivery (CfSD), we have launched the Accelerated National Innovation Adoption (ANIA) Pathway, which will ensure a faster route to develop and deploy technology and redesign initiatives across our NHS in a Once for Scotland approach.
To further ensure sustainable, faster and equitable healthcare treatment across Scotland, CfSD is modernising patient pathways in areas such as lung cancer diagnosis and cataract surgery, as well as the Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Centres.
The NHS Scotland Academy is an exciting partnership between NHS Golden Jubilee and NHS Education for Scotland to offer accelerated training for a wide range of health and social care roles and professions. The Academy will provide an opportunity for staff to improve their skills in specific areas, using residential, distance and virtual reality learning. It will offer attractive training programmes linked to recruitment and career progression.
There is no doubt NHS Golden Jubilee in common with all NHS Boards in Scotland has financial and operational challenges ahead. There are significant cost pressures resulting from demand, cost of supplies, energy, general inflation and pay costs. NHS Golden Jubilee is working towards achieving the 3% efficiency target for 2023/24 based on a local Sustainability and Value Programme known as ‘Achieving the Balance’.
This is a refined programme approach for 2024/25 and beyond that will focus on sustainability and value, providing a more rigorous governance framework in the identification, evaluation and delivery of efficiencies for each project workstream.
Executive summary
This Strategy has been developed in consultation with stakeholders within NHS Golden Jubilee and the Senior Leadership Group, the Audit and Risk Committee and the board have approved this strategy and are committed to its aims, objectives and delivery.
This document sets out the Procurement Strategy (2024-2027) to support NHS Golden Jubilee in the delivery of their corporate objectives in line with public procurement legislation, the Scottish Model of Procurement and Scottish Government policy. This Strategy will be refreshed annually.
The Scottish Government’s Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland 2023 to 2028 details the aims of its National Performance Framework to:
- create a more successful country
- give opportunities to all people living in Scotland
- increase the wellbeing of people living in Scotland
- create sustainable and inclusive growth
- reduce inequalities and give equal importance to economic, environmental and social progress
The key priorities for NHS Golden Jubilee linked to these aims are detailed in Section 4 of this document.
The Sustainable Procurement Duty, requires public bodies in Scotland to buy in a way which is:
- good for businesses and employees
- good for society
- good for places and communities
- open and connected
This strategy documents how this will be achieved within NHS Golden Jubilee.
